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Exploring UFOs and Extraterrestrial LifeTue, 03 Mar 2015 20:00:32 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1Daniel Sheehan – Providing Answers to Questions Posed by Extraterrestrial Contacthttp://www.openminds.tv/daniel-sheehan-providing-answers-questions-posed-extraterrestrial-contact/28421
http://www.openminds.tv/daniel-sheehan-providing-answers-questions-posed-extraterrestrial-contact/28421#commentsMon, 30 Jun 2014 22:38:19 +0000http://www.openminds.tv/?p=28421Attorney Daniel Sheehan expands his observations in response to the Vatican’s shocking announcement that there is another highly-advanced non-human species elsewhere in our galaxy and that this likely extraterrestrial species is going to be discovered by humans in just a few short years. Sheehan explains why he believes it is incumbent to prepare people for ...

Attorney Daniel Sheehan expands his observations in response to the Vatican’s shocking announcement that there is another highly-advanced non-human species elsewhere in our galaxy and that this likely extraterrestrial species is going to be discovered by humans in just a few short years. Sheehan explains why he believes it is incumbent to prepare people for the various implications which will arise with the possible arrival of these beings.

Daniel Sheehan is a social activist who has spent virtually his entire life working on progressive social programs and initiatives. As the legal counsel on such nationally-recognized investigative cases involving government covert operations as the Karen Silkwood case, the Iran/Contra case, the Pentagon Papers case, the Watergate Burglary case, and the American Sanctuary Movement case, Daniel brings to the issue of Extraterrestrial Intelligence and the UFO Phenomenon a unique background in investigating and exposing the world of American governmental covert operations, “black budget” operations, mind control programs, government disinformation projects, covert warfare and clandestine operations. He established the Christic Institute in Washington, DC, which for nearly two decades was the country’s preeminent public-interest law firm.

]]>http://www.openminds.tv/daniel-sheehan-providing-answers-questions-posed-extraterrestrial-contact/28421/feed0Vatican astronomer willing to baptize aliens speaks at Georgetown commencementhttp://www.openminds.tv/vatican-astronomer-guy-consolmagno-baptize-aliens-speaks-georgetown/27709
http://www.openminds.tv/vatican-astronomer-guy-consolmagno-baptize-aliens-speaks-georgetown/27709#commentsMon, 19 May 2014 23:24:30 +0000http://www.openminds.tv/?p=27709On Saturday, May 17, Guy Consolmagno, an astronomer and planetary scientist at the Vatican Observatory, spoke to graduates at Georgetown University’s commencement ceremony. He began his speech by acknowledging that many are surprised to hear that the Vatican operates its own observatory. He explains that, by supporting an observatory, the Vatican is “reminding the world, ...

]]>On Saturday, May 17, Guy Consolmagno, an astronomer and planetary scientist at the Vatican Observatory, spoke to graduates at Georgetown University’s commencement ceremony.

He began his speech by acknowledging that many are surprised to hear that the Vatican operates its own observatory. He explains that, by supporting an observatory, the Vatican is “reminding the world, including Catholics, that the church supports and embraces science.” He added, “We’re not afraid of the truth. We actively seek it.”

Consolmagno made headlines in 2010 when he told the Guardian, “Any entity – no matter how many tentacles it has – has a soul.” He also told the Guardian that he would gladly baptize an extraterrestrial if one requested. But during his speech at Georgetown, he announced, “There aren’t any extraterrestrials – at least none that I know of.” But he continued, “And even if we do encounter them someday, it’s going to be a long time before we can converse with them well enough to discuss the theology of the trinity or something.”

Pope Francis also recently made comments about baptizing aliens, stating that “Christians cannot ‘close the door’ to all those who seek baptism even if they are ‘green men, with a long nose and big ears, like children draw.'”

Pope Francis. (Credit: Casa Rosada/Wikimedia Commons)

Guy Consolmagno‘s Georgetown speech begins at approximately the 16:00 mark in the video at the top of this post.

]]>A new book claims that Vatican astronomers are looking for extraterrestrials. And they are using LUCIFER to do it. Although it shares the same name as Christianity’s fallen angel and the personification of evil, LUCIFER is an instrument attached to a telescope.

As Popular Science explains, LUCIFER is an acronym for the instruments lengthy title, “Large Binocular Telescope Near-infrared Utility with Camera and Integral Field Unit for Extragalactic Research.” This instrument is attached to the University of Arizona’s Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) located on Mt. Graham in south eastern Arizona. The Vatican-owned Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope (VATT) is right next door.

The VATT as seen from the balcony of the nearby LBT (Credit: Andromeda321/Wikimedia Commons)

According to EcumenicalNews.com, authors of a new book assert that Vatican astronomers are using both the VATT and the LBT’s LUCIFER instrument to watch for an alien savior. Tom Horn and Chris Putnam, authors of Exo-Vaticana: Petrus Romanus, Project LUCIFER, and the Vatican’s astonishing plan for the arrival of an alien savior, visited with the Jesuit astronomers at the VATT, including Guy Consolmagno.

The authors claim that Consolmagno revealed to them documents showing that the Vatican believes “that we are soon to be visited by an alien savior from another world.”

Cover of the book Exo-Vaticana. (Credit: Defender)

The authors claim they will back up their assertions with documented sources when their book is released on April 15.

Guy Consolmagno speaks regularly about science and religion. In a 2010 interview, he told The Guardian, “Any entity – no matter how many tentacles it has – has a soul.” He made headlines because of this interview, in which he said he would offer to baptize an extraterrestrial being if one requested.

Consolmagno has also stated that the Pope and the Vatican are keen on science, and they are kept up-to-date on the latest scientific developments by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.

]]>http://www.openminds.tv/daily-ufo-headlines-41113/19966/feed0Vatican astronomer speaks about science and religionhttp://www.openminds.tv/vatican-astronomer-speaks-about-science-and-religion-609/8162
http://www.openminds.tv/vatican-astronomer-speaks-about-science-and-religion-609/8162#commentsTue, 15 Feb 2011 21:37:32 +0000http://www.openminds.tv/?p=8162Vatican astronomer Guy Consolmagno recently spoke at Winona State University in Minnesota about science, religion, and how the two work together.

Vatican astronomer Guy Consolmagno recently spoke at Winona State University in Minnesota about science, religion, and how the two work together. Consolmagno told the local ABC affiliate, ABC 6 News, that he travels “around the United States, basically getting people to appreciate what science can be in their spiritual life and to appreciate how religion can inform without controlling the way that they do science.”

Consolmagno has been quite outspoken regarding science and religion. In a 2010 interview, he told The Guardian, “Any entity – no matter how many tentacles it has – has a soul.” He made headlines because of this interview by The Guardian, in which he said he would offer to baptize an extraterrestrial being if one requested.

On Monday, Consolmagno’s presentation focused on whether or not Pluto should be considered a planet. Tonight’s presentation shifts gears and focuses on the connection between religion and science.

]]>http://www.openminds.tv/vatican-astronomer-speaks-about-science-and-religion-609/8162/feed3Vatican astronomer offers to baptize EThttp://www.openminds.tv/vatican-astronomer-baptize-et-506/5632
http://www.openminds.tv/vatican-astronomer-baptize-et-506/5632#commentsFri, 24 Sep 2010 15:08:14 +0000http://www.openminds.tv/?p=5632A Vatican astronomer has offered to baptize any extraterrestrials that might come in contact with Earth. Extraterrestrials may have souls, and Guy Consolmagno, a planetary scientist at the Vatican observatory, says he would baptize an ET if it asked him to. In an interview with The Guardian, Consolmagno explained, “Any entity – no matter how ...

A Vatican astronomer has offered to baptize any extraterrestrials that might come in contact with Earth.

Extraterrestrials may have souls, and Guy Consolmagno, a planetary scientist at the Vatican observatory, says he would baptize an ET if it asked him to. In an interview with The Guardian, Consolmagno explained, “Any entity – no matter how many tentacles it has – has a soul.”

According to Consolmagno, the Pope and the Vatican are keen on science, and they are kept up-to-date on the latest scientific developments by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, of which Stephen Hawking is a member.

]]>http://www.openminds.tv/vatican-astronomer-baptize-et-506/5632/feed3UFO filmed over the Vatican by U.S. ambassador security guardshttp://www.openminds.tv/vatican-ufo-film/3841
http://www.openminds.tv/vatican-ufo-film/3841#commentsWed, 09 Jun 2010 23:05:04 +0000http://www.openminds.tv/?p=3841According to recent reports, it seems that a UFO flap is taking place in Rome and that strange objects were also recorded on camera several times.

Was Rome visited by Unidentified Flying Objects? Definitely, and once again the sightings in the skies over Vatican City stirred newspaper headlines and numerous TV news reports in Italy. According to recent reports, it seems that a UFO flap is taking place in Rome and that strange objects were also recorded on camera several times. The most important one is the footage of an odd luminous formation taken by three security guards stationed in front of the residence of the U.S. ambassador to the Vatican (Holy See). These were qualified witnesses since they are artillerymen, trained experts in air surveillance.

It was at 4 am in the night of June 7th when three men belonging to the 17° antiaircraft Regiment at the “Santa Barbara” station in Sabaudia (Latina province), spotted three spherical bright objects hovering in the sky above St. Peter’s dome in the Vatican, right in the center of Rome. They promptly filmed the unexpected nocturnal air show with a cell phone.

From their point of observation in the Roman Monteverde area (overlooked by the Gianicolo hill), they immediately stopped a police patrol. Well trained in spotting aircraft, the artillerymen excluded the possibility of a commercial plane, a jet fighter or a balloon. They described the object’s swift maneuvers, mentioning a “darting move toward the sky,” a “delta formation,” and “luminous dots suspended at about three hundred feet above the ground.” They added that there is “no way a conventional airplane can do such things.” The UFO disappeared and reappeared for brief moments, with sudden changes of altitude before it darted westbound at a 40 degree angle. The police patrol took the report very seriously and the central police station in Rome was immediately alerted. The footage, more than a minute in length, was acquired by the Italian police, pending further investigations.

“Studio Aperto” anchorwoman Elena Guarnieri.

Thanks to the technical background of the witnesses, many TV networks took the news seriously. “Studio Aperto” (Mediaset, Italia Uno newscast) anchorwoman Elena Guarnieri introduced the segment saying: “We will show ﻿ you now an exclusive video footage of a UFO sighting in Rome, this video was filmed by three soldiers, take a look.” Staff journalist Paolo Capresi then describes the images: “They are three flying objects and they are floating in the air, they were filmed last night in the sky above Rome. The images were taken with a cell phone by three soldiers who were in service in front of the U.S. ambassador’s residence in the Vatican City (Holy See), Monteverde district, two steps from St.﻿ Peter’s Square, and were immediately handed over to the Carabinieri [police]. As you can see there are no objects around to use as reference points that can give us the exact distance and size of the UFOs. It seems that they are spherical in shape and they hover above the Vatican. They appear and disappear often changing altitude.”

The journalist concluded, almost ironically: “The soldiers who have filmed these objects are based in the antiaircraft division and are specialized in recognizing the flight path of aircraft. Since 1978 it’s the Air Force that is in charge of registering sightings (over Italy)”. Colonel Marco Picciau of the Italian Air Force specifies that “statistics of sightings reported before 2001 were 300, after 2001 we have a more precise statistic on 50, 55, sightings [every year]”.

You can see the full coverage by the Italia Uno network here:

The June 7th sighting was preceded approximately eight hours before by another relevant sighting. As reported in the Roman newspaper “Il Messaggero”, “Just last Sunday [June 6], at 8 pm, many motorists traveling along the Via Aurelia and the A12 highway in the section between Civitavecchia and Santa Marinella, said they saw a very bright circular object flying across the sky.”

Il Messaggero newspaper article "A UFO in the sky of Rome - Reported by three military men", regarding the June 6th sighting.

In the just released second issue of Open Minds magazine, my colleague Antonio Huneeus wrote the cover story about the Vatican Extraterrestrial Connection, which includes a section about UFO sightings in Rome going all the way back to 214 B.C. The article describes in detail a famous report in 1954 when a formation of unidentified objects flew right on top of St. Peter’s square and made a St. Andrew’s cross for a few seconds. It seems that UFOs are still flying over the Roman airspace and particularly the area around Vatican City.

Click the image to get your copy of the Vatican issue of Open Minds Magazine.